http://www.cato-unbound.org Big Ideas for a Better World Thu, 15 May 2008 14:49:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/14/john-ghazvinian/the-wenar-proposal-vs-realpolitik/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/14/john-ghazvinian/the-wenar-proposal-vs-realpolitik/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 12:44:35 +0000 John Ghazvinian http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/14/john-ghazvinian/the-wenar-proposal-vs-realpolitik/ While lauding the goal of Leif Wenar's proposal for fighting the effects of the resource curse, John Ghazvinian, author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil, questions its practicability. When it comes to determining which governments meet the threshold of a "minimally decent and unified government," Ghazvinian worries about the possibility that "this process will become deeply politicized" or "simply reduced to who has the best PR apparatus." Ghazvinian suggests that requiring a government to be unified, though intended to stave off civil war, may "have the opposite effect" by providing "any aggrieved minority the power of an instant veto-risking destabilization in what are often already unstable countries." Wenar's "anti-theft" tariff, Ghazvinian argues, seems unlikely really to be seen as distinct from other tariffs and so will introduce just another complicating factor into the realpolitik of trade negotiation. ]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/14/john-ghazvinian/the-wenar-proposal-vs-realpolitik/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/12/leif-wenar/we-all-own-stolen-goods/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/12/leif-wenar/we-all-own-stolen-goods/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 13:39:16 +0000 Leif Wenar http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/12/leif-wenar/we-all-own-stolen-goods/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/05/12/leif-wenar/we-all-own-stolen-goods/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/24/sol-stern/reply-to-strong/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/24/sol-stern/reply-to-strong/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:21:50 +0000 Sol Stern http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/24/sol-stern/reply-to-strong/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/24/sol-stern/reply-to-strong/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/michael-strong/understanding-how-educational-freedom-improves-education/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/michael-strong/understanding-how-educational-freedom-improves-education/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:08:31 +0000 Michael Strong http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/michael-strong/understanding-how-educational-freedom-improves-education/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/michael-strong/understanding-how-educational-freedom-improves-education/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/sol-stern/why-not-use-what-we-already-know/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/sol-stern/why-not-use-what-we-already-know/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:24:01 +0000 Sol Stern http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/sol-stern/why-not-use-what-we-already-know/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/sol-stern/why-not-use-what-we-already-know/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/frederick-hess/deregulating-smart/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/frederick-hess/deregulating-smart/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:46 +0000 Frederick Hess http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/frederick-hess/deregulating-smart/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/23/frederick-hess/deregulating-smart/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/22/richard-rothstein/if-the-poor-will-always-be-with-us-so-too-will-low-test-scores/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/22/richard-rothstein/if-the-poor-will-always-be-with-us-so-too-will-low-test-scores/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:41:42 +0000 Richard Rothstein http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/22/richard-rothstein/if-the-poor-will-always-be-with-us-so-too-will-low-test-scores/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/22/richard-rothstein/if-the-poor-will-always-be-with-us-so-too-will-low-test-scores/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/21/frederick-hess/the-danger-of-grand-fixes/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/21/frederick-hess/the-danger-of-grand-fixes/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:57:40 +0000 Frederick Hess http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/21/frederick-hess/the-danger-of-grand-fixes/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/21/frederick-hess/the-danger-of-grand-fixes/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/19/sol-stern/against-education-utopias/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/19/sol-stern/against-education-utopias/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:04:24 +0000 Sol Stern http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/19/sol-stern/against-education-utopias/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/19/sol-stern/against-education-utopias/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/18/michael-strong/teens-in-crisis/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/18/michael-strong/teens-in-crisis/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:02:34 +0000 Michael Strong http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/18/michael-strong/teens-in-crisis/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/18/michael-strong/teens-in-crisis/feed/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/17/richard-rothstein/response-to-the-responses/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/17/richard-rothstein/response-to-the-responses/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:40:10 +0000 Richard Rothstein http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/17/richard-rothstein/response-to-the-responses/ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/17/richard-rothstein/response-to-the-responses/feed/